“The best ideal is the true
And other truth is none.
All glory be ascribed to
The holy Three in One.”

—  Gerard Manley Hopkins

" Summa http://www.bartleby.com/122/52.html", lines 1-4
Wessex Poems and Other Verses (1918)

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English poet 1844–1889

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